Thx Peter, I'll give this a try but I am a little primitive in my linux knowhow.
Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:44:37 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I was able to install Ubuntu a while back, by first doing a minimal debian install, and then changing the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Ubuntu repositories. After an apt-get dist-upgrade my pb1400cs had Ubuntu Breezy installed. Peter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Hi Vito, > > you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. > So knoppix will not work. > As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't > know where to get CD images from. > On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu > 4.10 (Warty Warthog). > > Tobias > > > > Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on > the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, > Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us > less savy in the linux world - those distributions are > appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing > a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount > already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off > during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around > is to boot from the > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the > installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are > loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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